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All the Pretty Horses: Book 1 of The Border Trilogy
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Border trilogy (Cormac McCarthy)
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NATIONAL BOOK AWARD WINNER • NATIONAL BESTSELLER • The first volume in the Border Trilogy, from the Pulitzer Prize–winning author of The Road
All the Pretty Horses is the tale of John Grady Cole, who at sixteen finds himself at the end of a long line of Texas ranchers, cut off from the only life he has ever imagined for himself. With two companions, he sets off for Mexico on a sometimes idyllic, sometimes comic journey to a place where dreams are paid for in blood.
Look for Cormac McCarthy's latest novels, The Passenger and Stella Maris.
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Cormac McCarthy. (2010). All the Pretty Horses: Book 1 of The Border Trilogy. Knopf Doubleday Publishing Group.

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Look for Cormac McCarthy's latest novels, The Passenger and Stella Maris.
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Look for Cormac McCarthy's latest novels, The Passenger and Stella Maris.
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